Timothy Noah Quotes
- Ultimate success for a carbon tax would mean so complete a shift to renewable energy that the tax would stop raising much revenue at all.
- To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass…
- Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony from owning a gun. Seems like kind of a good idea, no?
- The worst an ex-con is likely to do if given the right to vote is vote for a Democrat.
- Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.
- I recognize that Republicans see a moral difference between a dollar taken away from a millionaire in government benefits and a dollar taken away from…
- Everyone agrees that animals should not be exposed to unnecessary pain. But neither should scientists be hamstrung by the requirement to use anesthesia in every…
- Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.
- We live in an era of mind-blowing scientific discovery, virtually none of which ever makes the front page, even as every trivial twist and turn…
- When the only people in mainstream discourse who care about the working class are Wall Street investors, it really is time to ask where our…